And food!

Yup! Food that is very tasty after spending most of the day experimenting with jutsu.

(Dayo thinks the food is not the only very tasty thing here.)

Tetsuma will remain somewhat oblivious unless Dayo says something! Though she does sit leaning against her as they eat, chatting about her day (this includes a lot of digressions into Geek Mode).

Yeah she's not interrupting Geek Mode, it's so adorable and hot and amazing. She does hug her girlfriend and sometimes kiss her though.

Tetsuma is very delighted about the kisses!

"You know, we'll need to think up a more detailed plan at some point... You said earlier that you want to try and talk to him before stealing the jewel?"

"I wanna understand what his deal is, exactly. Why he got the jewel, what exactly it does."

"One of us might be able to approach him openly... Well, under a transformation, so we don't wind up suspected if we do steal it, but we might be able to get an audience as a new arrival with strange magic."

"My transformation's probably the most resistant to detection, right?"

"Yeah. You're also a better actor than me, I'm terrible at infiltration stuff. Still, there might be some way he'd be able to tell you're the same person as Sadde - anyone who can sense chakra would be able to do that back home - so that's something to be leery of."

"Different genders to assuage suspicion... I wonder if I can't somehow disguise my chakra."

"Usually I'd say no, but copying my yang chakra - the physical portion you copied earlier, to get the wood manipulation - might do the trick, for some types of chakra sensors at least."

She nods. "Okay so I'm thinking that next one of us should pretend to be one of the servants—I don't know if I told you but they're basically invisible there—to get a better internal map of the place. Maybe I should stay a while as Sadde and get as much as I can then claim I'm going to the university and infiltrate again as a servant... But if you think you can do the acting we can parallelise."

"Well, Sadde can hardly be expected to work everyday, can he? What days do you get off? I'd be worried for me mostly about the transformation being noticed..."

"Well, not every day, no, but I probably can't swing being both things at the same time unless I use a clone but then it might be noticeable..."

"I was thinking you could just visit once or twice, get an appointment on one of Sadde's days off. Though I can go in if you'd rather that, especially if we draw up a list of questions to ask beforehand."

"No, I think you're right about the disguising magic, I just think that being a servant for a few days there would give me access to more parts of the castle than I currently have."

"Sure, that makes sense."

"What do you think we should do?"

"I'm not entirely sure. Waiting a bit and just doing recon would be a good idea either way, so we can get a better idea of the situation."

"Yeah, probably."

"I should have an angle for spying remotely soon, which will help. Ideally the merge-with-wood jutsu will be undetectable, especially if performed by a clone."

"Wouldn't a clone be more detectable?"

"Not if I make it right, so that it matches the natural chakra."

"Cool."